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Lever as Instrument of Reason, The: Technological Constructions of Knowledge around 1800: 25 (New Directions in German Studies) - Hardcover

Book 24 of 37: New Directions in German Studies

Holland, Jocelyn

 
9781501346057: Lever as Instrument of Reason, The: Technological Constructions of Knowledge around 1800: 25 (New Directions in German Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1501346059 ISBN 13: 9781501346057
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Synopsis

The lever appears to be a very simple object, a tool used since ancient times for the most primitive of tasks: to lift and to balance. Why, then, were prominent intellectuals active around 1800 in areas as diverse as science, philosophy, and literature inspired to think and write about levers? In The Lever as Instrument of Reason, readers will discover the remarkable ways in which the lever is used to model the construction of knowledge and to mobilize new ideas among diverse disciplines. These acts of construction are shown to model key aspects of the human, from the more abstract processes of moral decision-making to a quite literal equation of the powerful human ego with the supposed stability and power of the fulcrum point.

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About the Author

Jocelyn Holland is Associate Professor of German at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Professor of Comparative Literature at the California Institute of Technology, USA. She is the author of German Romanticism and Science: The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis and Ritter (2009) and Key Texts on the Science and Art of Nature by Johann Wilhelm Ritter (2010).

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1501346059
ISBN 13 
9781501346057
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
220